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alteringly

alteringly adverb: so as to alter or change something.

Adverb

alteringly (comparative more alteringly, superlative most alteringly)

  1. (in-compounds) So as to alter or change something.
    • What may be life-alteringly significant to one person may be impossibly incoherent or banal to another because the two are at different phases in their lives.1996, Barbara Powell, Windows Into the Infinite: A Guide to the Hindu Scriptures, page 182
    • There is no more purposeful, insistent and mind-alteringly beautiful thing than this heavenly signature.2022, Jason Potter, Amatoria

Forms of alteringly

comparativemore alteringly
superlativemost alteringly

Origin of alteringly

From altering + -ly.

Questions about alteringly

What does alteringly mean?
Alteringly means so as to alter or change something.
What part of speech is alteringly?
Alteringly is an adverb.

Words near alteringly in the dictionary

  1. alterhuman
  2. alterhumanity
  3. alterhumans
  4. altering
  5. altering or changing
  6. alteringly
  7. alterings
  8. alteriority
  9. alterite
  10. alterities
  11. alteritism

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